Find the New Jersey municipal court that has your ticket

Joint municipal courts and towns with the same name

A town not in the court list may share a joint municipal court, such as Madison’s joint court in Morris County, which the Judiciary’s list marks under its county.

The two Hamilton courts differ from each other by county on the Judiciary’s list, with Hamilton in Mercer County and Hamilton Township, which the list marks as a joint court, in Atlantic County. The Union, Union City and Union Township courts differ from one another on the same list, with Union in Union County, Union City in Hudson County, and Union Township in Hunterdon County. The Judiciary’s court list calls the Court ID the Court Code.

If you still cannot tell which court has the ticket, the Statewide Call Center number is under Contacting a municipal court.

Contacting a municipal court

You contact a New Jersey municipal court at the phone number on your ticket or court notice, as the New Jersey Judiciary advises.

The Judiciary’s court list also gives each court’s phone number. If you do not know which court has the ticket, call the Statewide Call Center at 609-421-6100, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m.–10 p.m. The contact table lists the phone number and address of three New Jersey municipal courts, Jersey City, Newark and Trenton, each read on the court’s own page, October 12, 2026.

Newark Municipal Court’s phone number, 973-733-6520, is the court’s call center line on its own page and equals the number in the Judiciary’s court list. The Judiciary’s court list also gives each court’s address, court days and office hours.

To request court records, submit documents on JEDS.

Municipal court hours and session days

Municipal court hours are not in the New Jersey Judiciary’s court list, which gives each court’s session days instead.

Jersey City’s and Newark’s own court pages state conflicting hours, so this guide prints no court hours.

Call the court at the phone number on your ticket or court notice to confirm its hours.

What a New Jersey municipal court handles

A New Jersey municipal court handles traffic and parking tickets and other municipal court complaints, the matters NJMCDirect resolves online.

Your ticket prints the court’s name and address, as the Judiciary’s sample ticket shows. The court readers name by a town plus the word traffic is that town’s municipal court, the one named on your ticket.

To find a court’s Court ID, phone number and session days, use the court finder.